Wireless Groningen is up-and-running
A new blog (the combined power of two geeks b10m and BOK) and a new network in town.
Last Wednesday, October 3rd, Draadloos Groningen (aka Wireless Groningen) went life. The first major city in the Netherlands with a project like this. So they say, I thought the city of Leiden was leading…
The inner city of my hometown has now complete wireless networking coverage. Complete, well no, only in the area of what is known as Grote Markt en Vismarkt. And no, no access for all, only accessible to a group of privileged people, like students from the university and local companies.
Nevertheless I did some wardriving while walking along the Vismarkt with my Palm T|X-PDA and a tiny app called NetChaser. I picked up a total of six broadcasting access-points named “Draadloos Groningen”, on channels 1, 6 and 13. The MAC-addresses that showed up all started with “00:06:5A”, which means they started out with a mesh of Strix Systems-equipment.
I didn’t try to login to the network, nor did I spot the actual APs locations, but one of these days I will give that a try. Then I can tell what encryption is being used too: I forgot to look into that on the Palm, so whether it’s WEP, WPA or WPA2, I can’t tell…
Comments
Comment from M
Time: October 19, 2007, 11:15 am
I got this kismac dump after scanning around the Kleine Pelsterstraat:
- $Creator: KisMAC NS export version 0.2
- $Format: wi-scan with extensions
- Latitude Longitude ( SSID ) Type ( BSSID ) Time (GMT) [ SNR Sig Noise ] # ( Name ) Flags Channelbits BcnIntvl
- $DateGMT: 2007-10-19
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:41:09:2B ) 16:58:58 (GMT) [ 21 21 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:C1:09:2B ) 16:58:44 (GMT) [ 21 21 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Manage ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:01:09:2B ) 16:59:23 (GMT) [ 20 20 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( EDUROAM ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:21:09:2B ) 16:58:58 (GMT) [ 20 20 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Draadloos Groningen ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:81:09:2B ) 16:59:23 (GMT) [ 20 20 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0001 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Draadloos Groningen ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:81:02:09 ) 16:52:22 (GMT) [ 11 11 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0001 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:41:02:09 ) 16:52:22 (GMT) [ 11 11 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:C1:02:09 ) 16:52:22 (GMT) [ 11 11 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Manage ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:01:02:09 ) 16:52:24 (GMT) [ 10 10 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( EDUROAM ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:21:02:09 ) 16:52:24 (GMT) [ 11 11 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( EDUROAM ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:21:09:03 ) 16:52:24 (GMT) [ 11 11 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Manage ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:01:09:03 ) 16:52:24 (GMT) [ 10 10 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0011 0000 0
N 0.0000000 E 0.0000000 ( Draadloos Groningen ) BSS ( 00:06:5A:81:09:03 ) 16:52:24 (GMT) [ 10 10 0 ] # ( Strix Systems ) 0001 0000 0
Comment from Redhead
Time: October 8, 2007, 9:11 am
I’m very curious about how the system works… too bad i don’t live in Groningen anymore, but my brother also wrote something about it at his blog (www.niwla.nl)
Anyways, congratulations on the new geekblok, the RSS is already in my RSS-reader!